LEBANON – When we understand the true impacts of climate change and recognize that this crisis can’t be solved in isolation, we find the path to the just, sustainable, healthy world that we all need and that our children deserve.

Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s (D-H) Department of Community and Family Medicine and Center for Advancing Rural Health Equity are proud to sponsor the 38th annual Schumann Lecture, in partnership with the Hitchcock Foundation. This year’s lecture topic is “Climate Change & Health Equity: A Pediatrician’s Prescription for Effective Climate Action.”

The keynote speaker of this year’s Schumann Lecture is Aaron Bernstein, MD, MPH, interim director of the Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Harvard Chan C-CHANGE). Bernstein is also a pediatrician at Boston Children’s Hospital and an assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Bernstein focuses on the health impacts of the climate crisis on children’s health and advancing solutions to address its causes to improve the health and wellbeing of children around the world.

The annual Schumann Lecture, which is open to the public, is supported by an endowment to the Hitchcock Foundation from the late Helmut Wolfgang Schumann to provide a free lecture by a nationally renowned figure on topics related to healthy living.

This year’s lecture will be held virtually via Zoom on Wednesday, April 6, at 5 pm. To register, visit https://bit.ly/3qRD89g.